January 6th hearings on Trump's failed insurrection.

hanimmal said:

Click to expand...

CunningCanuk said:

View attachment 5014306

Click to expand...

DIY-HP-LED said:

Bannon is only looking at a year, if Garland indicts him and asks for the maximum penalty, then the judge will only give him 9 months and he will be out on parole in 6 months. But 6 months is a long time without a drink for someone like Steve, shit 6 hours would be a long time from the looks of him!

Click to expand...

printer said:

They have hooch on the inside. Problem is, it will cost you.

Click to expand...

An Indiana Republican who was rejected from the House select committee is apparently conducting a shadow investigation of the Jan. 6 insurrection.

Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) was one of two GOP congressman rejected by House speaker Nancy Pelosi for the select committee, but he has been sending letters to federal agencies and social media companies identifying himself as the "ranking member" on the panel, and The Daily Beast has obtained one of those letters.

"You are receiving this letter because the House of Representatives Select Committee to Investigate the events of January 6th may have sent you a request for information," Banks wrote in the letter to Interior Department secretary Deb Haaland, dated Sept. 16. "The House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy appointed me to serve as the Ranking Member of the Select Committee. Yet, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi refused to allow me to fulfill my duties as Ranking Member."

Banks argued that the minority party, under House rules, enjoys the same access to information as the majority party.

"For those reasons, I ask that you provide me any information that is submitted to the Select Committee," he wrote. "Additionally, please include me on any update or briefing that you provide."

The D.C. Circuit of Appeals ruled last year that minority members of a congressional committee can sue to obtain information from executive agencies, but that doesn't guarantee that lawmakers would win those lawsuits, and it's not even clear whether Banks has standing to make such a claim because he's not on the committee -- which already has two Republicans, Reps. Liz Cheney (R-WY) and Adam Kinzinger (R-IL).

Banks' shadow investigation came to light as the select committee voted to hold Donald Trump adviser Steve Bannon in contempt of Congress for ignoring the panel's subpoena, which the House approved in a subsequent vote, and Cheney cited the letters in a floor speech.

He was nominated to the select committee by House minority leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), along with Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), but Pelosi rejected both GOP lawmakers because they had voted against certifying President Joe Biden's election win on the day of the insurrection.

Click to expand...

Fogdog said:

I hear they make a knockout punch from raisins and bread. Mix in a little gamma-hydroxybutyrate and he won't feel a thing.

Click to expand...

DIY-HP-LED said:

Bannon is only looking at a year, if Garland indicts him and asks for the maximum penalty, then the judge will only give him 9 months and he will be out on parole in 6 months. But 6 months is a long time without a drink for someone like Steve, shit 6 hours would be a long time from the looks of him!

Click to expand...

Herb & Suds said:

Maybe he will choose the Epstein option ?

Click to expand...

DIY-HP-LED said:

They should arrest the fucker and drag him there. When he is there, the house should jail him for contempt (rent jail space from DC). I figure a day or two in the crowbar hotel will cause ole Steve a Helluva case of the DTs. An interview room, a couple of FBI agents and a bottle of Stevie's favorite should be sufficient to make him sweat, shake and loosen his tongue. Yep, wait till he's climbing the walls and sit him down staring at a nice bottle with an answer a per shot. Shit they should do it in the committee room on national TV! They do make their own rules after all, even if they have to put a pad on Steve's chair to keep him from shaking it to pieces. A nice legal waterboarding using Steve's own sweat!

Click to expand...

Herb & Suds said:

I was right there with ya till we got to "Steves sweat"

EWWW

Click to expand...

DIY-HP-LED said:

He'd be shaking sweat in a cloud like a wet dog! His lawyer would need to wear a raincoat!

Click to expand...

They called it the “command center,” a set of rooms and suites in the posh Willard hotel a block from the White House where some of President Donald Trump’s most loyal lieutenants were working day and night with one goal in mind: overturning the results of the 2020 election.

The Jan. 6 rally on the Ellipse and the ensuing attack on the Capitol by a pro-Trump mob would draw the world’s attention to the quest to physically block Congress from affirming Joe Biden’s victory. But the activities at the Willard that week add to an emerging picture of a less visible effort, mapped out in memos by a conservative pro-Trump legal scholar and pursued by a team of presidential advisers and lawyers seeking to pull off what they claim was a legal strategy to reinstate Trump for a second term.

They were led by Trump’s personal lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani. Former chief White House strategist Stephen K. Bannon was an occasional presence as the effort’s senior political adviser. Former New York City police commissioner Bernard Kerik was there as an investigator. Also present was John Eastman, the scholar, who outlined scenarios for denying Biden the presidency in an Oval Office meeting on Jan. 4 with Trump and Vice President Mike Pence.



The committee has also requested documents and communications related to Eastman’s legal advice and analysis.

Eastman told The Post on Wednesday that he has not yet been contacted by the House select committee investigating the insurrection. Asked about his involvement in the Trump team’s operation at the Willard, Eastman said: “To the extent I was there, those were attorney discussions. You don’t get any comment from me on those.”

In May, Eastman indicated that he was at the hotel with Giuliani on the morning of Jan. 6. “We had a war room at the at the Willard . . . kind of coordinating all of the communications,” he told talk show host Peter Boyles, comments first reported in the newsletter Proof.

Giuliani’s lawyer, Robert Costello, did not respond to requests for comment.

Also present was One America News reporter Christina Bobb, a lawyer by training who was volunteering for the campaign at the time, according to people familiar with the operation. Bobb declined to comment.



A participant on the call, Michigan state Sen. Ed McBroom (R), recalled listening as Trump, Giuliani, Eastman and others described the power state legislators have over the certification of electors. “I didn’t need any convincing about our plenary powers,” McBroom told The Post. “I was listening to hear whether they had any evidence to substantiate claims” of significant voter fraud that could change the results in Michigan. The callers did not provide additional information, he said, and he did not support a delay in the electoral vote count.

But others appear to have been persuaded. Three days after the call, dozens of lawmakers from Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin wrote to Pence. They asked that he delay certification of Biden’s victory for 10 days to allow “our respective bodies to meet, investigate, and as a body vote on certification or decertification of the election.”

Also on Jan. 2, Eastman, Giuliani and Epshteyn appeared on Bannon’s podcast to make the case directly to Bannon’s pro-Trump listeners. They discussed what Bannon called that day’s “all-hands meeting with state . . . legislators that the Trump campaign and also others are putting on.” The comments were first highlighted by Proof.

They argued that state lawmakers were legally bound to reexamine their election results. “It’s the duty of these legislatures to fix this, this egregious conduct, and make sure that we’re not putting in the White House some guy that didn’t get elected,” Eastman said. He contended that Congress could itself decide on Jan. 6 to select Trump electors in contested states, but that “it would certainly be helped immensely if the legislatures in the states looked at what happened in their own states and weigh in.”

Eastman was not the first or the only person in Trump’s sphere to argue that Pence was empowered to block or delay certification of Biden’s victory. Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn — and Trump himself — suggested as much on Dec. 23, retweeting a post about the possibility of invoking “the Pence card.”

But after other efforts failed, as Jan. 6 neared, the Eastman strategy came into bloom. Eastman, a Federalist Society member, law professor and former clerk for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, had the conservative legal credentials to burnish the argument.




“Congress is adjourned. Send the elector choice back to the legislatures,” Kelli Ward, chair of the Arizona GOP, tweeted at 3:30 p.m., more than half an hour after insurrectionists in tactical gear made their way to the floor of the Senate.

Ward did not respond to a message seeking comment.

Epshteyn told The Post, “In line with President Trump’s position and message, the Trump legal team immediately made it clear that any and all violence is not acceptable.” At 2:30 p.m. on Jan. 6, shortly after the Capitol was breached, Epshteyn tweeted: “To all those protesting, please stay PEACEFUL and respect the LAW.”

After the violence began, Trump used his Twitter account to ask his supporters to “Stay peaceful,” but notably did not tell them to go home until 4:17 p.m., when he tweeted a video of himself addressing the Capitol rioters. “I know your pain. I know your hurt. We had an election that was stolen from us,” he said. “We have to have peace. So go home. We love you, you’re very special.”

While the lawyers at the Willard were focused on promoting the legal strategy Eastman outlined, Kerik helped head up efforts to sift through allegations of election fraud. Phil Waldron, a retired Army colonel who specialized in psychological operations, led a team of people who provided Kerik with analyses of state data, which purported to show fraudulent voting, according to two of the people familiar with activities at the Willard.

Waldron was working closely with Russell Ramsland, a Texas Republican who had been spreading election-fraud conspiracy theories for months before the election and submitted sworn affidavits to multiple post-election lawsuits claiming fraud, The Post has previously reported. Ramsland was present in one of the Willard rooms on the evening of Jan. 6, according to photographs posted to Instagram that circulated widely after the congressional committee’s mention of the “war room.”
Waldron and Ramsland did not respond to messages seeking comment.

Kerik said he had been working alongside Giuliani since Nov. 5, two days after the election, and that they continued until Jan. 19. “I believed until Inauguration Day that something could be done — that’s why the fight was still going on,” Kerik told The Post. “There were a lot of people who thought on the 6th that it was over, but I didn’t believe that because the evidence seemed so overwhelming to me.”



Eastman stayed at the Willard from Jan. 3 until after breakfast on Jan. 8, according to records showing that the hotel charged $1,407 for his lodging and meals during that time.

Click to expand...

Fogdog said:

I hear they make a knockout punch from raisins and bread. Mix in a little gamma-hydroxybutyrate and he won't feel a thing.

Click to expand...

captainmorgan said:

Inside Trump and Eastman's Jan. 2 'Big Lie' call with more than 300 GOP state legislators

Michigan Senate Oversight Committee Chair Ed McBroom (R-Vulcan) was on a call with hundreds of GOP lawmakers days before the Jan. 6 insurrection with President Donald Trump and his legal advisers, the Washington Post reported Saturday. Trump was on the call along with lawyers John Eastman — who...

www.rawstory.com

Click to expand...